Lamborghini has been clear that its first electric car, the forthcoming Lanzador, needs to make an astonishing sound. The noise is a huge part of the experience of an Italian exotic, so making it as quiet as a Prius is going to turn off some of its traditional customers.
But how do you create that sound? What should an electric exotic sound like? The company’s CEO has admitted to driving a range of other brand’s electric cars, including the Hyundai Ioniq 5 N, to try and get that sound just right.
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It’s no surprise that Lamborghini is benchmarking other EV sounds, including the Ioniq 5 N. Not just because one has been spotted around the Lamborghini factory in Italy, but because the 5 N’s snaps, crackles, pops, and fake shifts are probably the best in the business right now when it comes to gas feel in an EV.
But Lamborghini CEO Stephan Winkelmann told Drive Australia that he wasn’t a fan of the synthesized engine sounds and gear shifts. He admitted to the site that the Ioniq 5 N was one of the models the company had benchmarked to decide on its own plans.
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CEO Stephan Winkelmann thinks the first electric Lamborghini will be worth the wait even if Ferrari’s debut EV may launch next year.
“In terms of the sound, we have not decided yet. This is still something we are looking into,” he told the site. “Personally – this is not something which has to be true for the future – I tend to disagree on having fake combustion [petrol] engine sounds on electric cars,” he added.
“Even if they might – and I have driven the cars you’re talking about – even if they have some good feedback to the driver. For me, it’s important besides the sound that you get the feeling of driving a Lamborghini … so how the car is reacting, how it gets into the corner, how it’s braking, how it gets out, so the handling behavior,” he said, referring to the 5 N and others.
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Lamborghini still has some time to decide on its sounds. Winkelmann said that the automaker had “four to five years” to figure it out, meaning a production Lanzador isn’t going to arrive until 2029 or 2030.
The Lanzador will offer some silence, Winkelmann said. “For sure, there will be one option [which] is to have the silence, because this is one of the familiarities of electric cars. We will have this for sure, when we have our first full electric car.”
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When the Lanzador arrives, it will be the company’s most powerful car yet; “We are speaking of at least one megawatt [1,341 horsepower], where we speak about the first full-electric Lamborghini. This is important to underline,” he said. It will be the company’s heaviest yet, thanks to its battery packs, so it will need that power. It will also be more of a grand tourer so that extra weight’s effect on agility won’t be as mission-critical.
Source: Drive
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